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April 30, 2006 - Hot Ice












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This is Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis, a creeping, mat-forming succulent, a member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae and one of about thirty species in the genus Carpobrotus. It is also known as the Highway Ice Plant, Pigface or Hottentot Fig, and in South Africa known as Sour Fig. It's used all over out here, mainly to hold down hills and loose sand (thus the "highway" name), and as a firebreak (it is a succulent after all, and full of water). It requires next to no care and needs little rain, which is fine because we average little rain out here anyway. And like many things in California, it's very flashy.

Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis - in bloom

Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis - in bloom

Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis - in bloom

Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis - in bloom

Ice Plant - carpobrotus edulis - in bloom

This isn't Ice Plant at the curb.  It's just a weed, but a fine weed at a red curb.

... a fine weed at a red curb














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